What do you think? Do you consider me a slow loser?

[sharonintx 1,275]

I'm only losing about 1.5 pounds every ten days.

[tmde63 53]

I'm only losing about 1.5 pounds every ten days.

I totally understand how discouraging slow loss is. But, as everyone kept telling me, hang in there. Keep doing the right things and the lbs will come off. It took me 9 weeks to get excited about loss then got discouraged again, but kept up liquids, Protein and calorie count and prayerfully the loss will continue to speed up. Hope this helps

[Pinky Green 260]

My first appointment as on May 26th and I weighed 240.

On the day of surgery I weighed 228.

At my 6 month appointment I was 189.

I am at 10 months and am now down to 163.

I have 33 lbs to go. My doctor said at my 6 month appointment that he expected me to lose between 20 and 30 lbs. I had slowed to about 3 lbs a month. So far I have lost 26 pounds of that. However, recently my knees have stopped hurting enough that I can do some serious walking and bicycling and I have started to losing faster again. I lost 3 of those pounds in the last week.

[tmde63 53]

I hit the 40 lb mark. 15 weeks. Im so happy!

[lessismore67 158]

I just saw my doctor today for my six weeks postop appointment' date=' And ask him what benchmarks they like to use. He said they like to see patients who've lost 20% of their excess weight at six weeks, and 38% of their excess weight at three months...hope that helps[/quote']

This is really interesting.Did your Dr mean the excess weight starting from the day of surgery (after the preop diet) or from the very first consultation?

[NoneYa 380]

I just had to accept that I will lose slower than everyone else. I really don't care that much anymore as long as the scale moves in the right direction.

Pre surgery 240

surgery date 7-16 229,

8-14 215

so I think I average 1/ 2 lb per day. Everyone else seems to do much better but I'm ok with this way now.

[tmde63 53]

I'm so happy with my sleeve, down 48 lbs at week 18. I'm finally ok with only losing 1-2 lbs a week. I'm glad the scale is going in right direction! (Sleeved 4/22). day before surgery My son made me buy this red women's large T-shirt while trying to get a mens XXL. Very surprised how I looked. Praise God!!